Hoey, Josephine – Hogan, John Alvin
Hoey, Josephine
actress, was born in June, 1824, in England. In 1839 she appeared in small parts at the National theater in New York, and thereafter became a stock actress in other places .
Hoff, Henry Kuhn
naval officer, was born in 1809, in Pennsylvania. He . He was appointed a midshipman from South Carolina in 1823, and became a commodore. He died Dec. 25, 1878, in Washington, D. C.
Hoff, J. Wallace
journalist, author, was born July 7, 1867, in Rahway, N. J. He studied law and subsequently entered journalism. For several years he was connected with the State Gazette of Trenton, N. J.; and in 1895 founded the Mercer Review. He has written numerous local historical sketches; and is the author of a volume of short stories, and a work entitled Two Hundred Miles on the Delaware River.
Hoffer, John
merchant, was born Feb. 4, 1860, in Bonham, Texas. He received his education in the common schools, and at the Texas Military Institute of Austin. He was corresponding clerk of the school land department, and filled various other public positions in Armstrong county, Texas. He has attained success as a wholesale and retail merchant of Clarendon, Texas.
Hoffmann, August William
musician, composer, was born July 26, 1866, in Germany. He is a successful teacher of harmony and composition in the Beethoven Conservatory of Music of St. Louis, Mo. He is the author of several piano pieces; and of a number of dances played by Gilmore's band and other orchestras.
Hoffman, Beekman Verplanck
naval officer, was born Nov. 40, 1789, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1805, and reached the grade of captain in 1829. He died Dec. 10, 1834, in Jamaica, L. I.
Hoffman, Charles Fenno
author, poet, was born in 1806, in New York city. He was a popular poet and story writer of New York city who from 1850 lived in absolute retirement by reason of mental disorder.
He excelled as song writer, his best known songs being, Sparkling and Bright; and The Myrtle and Steel. He a is the author of A Winter in the West; Wild Scenes in the Forest and Prairie; The Vigil of Faith, and Other Poems; The Ecno, or Borrowed Notes for Home Circulation; and Love's Calendar, ana Other Poems; Grayslaer, a novel. He died June 7, 1884, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Hoffman, Clara Cleghorne
educator, lecturer, was born Jan. 18, 1836, in De Kalb, N. Y. For twelve years she was principal of the Great Ward school of Kansas City, Mo., where she still resides.
She previously taught in Keokuk, Iowa, and in Columbia, Ill. In 1882 she was elected president of the Missouri Woman's Christian Temperance union; and in 1893 was elected recording secretary of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union. She has lectured in all the states of the union, and in Great Britain and Canada. Humphrey Cleghorne, her father, kept an underground railway station for runaway slaves fleeing to Canada. In 1861 she married Dr. Goswin Hoffman, now a successful German physician of Kansas City, Mo.
Hoffman, L.vid
educator, lawyer, author, was born Dec. 25, 1784, in Baltimore, Md. He was a lawyer who was professor of law in the university of Maryland, and the author of A Course of Legal Study; Legal Outlines; Legal Legal Hints; Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men and Things; Chronicles Selected from the Originals of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew; and Viator, a Peep into My Notebook. He died Nov. 11, 1854, in New York city.
Hoffman, David Bancroft
physician, author, was born July 25, 1827, in Bainbridge, N. Y. He is a physician of San Diego who has published Medical History of San Diego County, California.
Hoffman, Eugene Augustus
clergyman, and dean of the General Theological seminary of New York city , was born March 21 , 1829, in New York city.
He received his education at the Columbia college, Gramcollege, Rutger's college, and Harvard university.
He has been rector of Christ church of Elizabeth, N. J.; St.
Mary's church of Burlington, N. J.; Grace church of mar Brooklyn Heights; and St. Mark's church of Philadelphia. This eminent clergyman of the protestant episcopal church is now dean of the General Theological seminary of New York city, and the author of Free Churches; The Ritualistic Week; Manual of Devotion for Communicants; and otner works.
Hoffman, Henry W
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857. In 1861 he was appointed collector of the port of Baltimore.
Hoffman, John N
clergyman, author, was born in 1804, in Pennsylvania. He was a lutheran clergyman of Lebanon, Pa., and the author of Evangelical Hymns, Original and Selected; A Collection of Tests; and The Broken Platform, a Defence of the Symbolical Books of the Lutheran Church. He died in 1857.
Hoffman, John Thompson
lawyer, governor, was born Jan. 10, 1828, in Sing Sing, N. Y. He was elected recorder of New York city in 1860 and 1863; and was elected mayor in 1865, and re-elected in 1867. He was chosen governor in 1869, serving until 1872. He died March 24, 1888, in Germany.
Hoffman, Michael
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1788, in Clifton Park, N. Y. He was elected to congress in 1824, and continued a member for eight years. He was appointed a canal commissioner for the state of New York, wrote several able reports, and resigned the office in 1835. In 1841 he went into the house of assembly from Herkimer county. He died Sept. 27, 1848, in Broonlyn.
Hoffman, Murray
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 29, 1791, in New York city. He was a prominent jurist of New York city, and the author of Office and Duties of Masters in Chancery; Estate and Rights of the Corporation of New York as Proprietors; Law of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; Ecclesiastical Law in the State of New York; and Law and Practice as to He died May 7, 1878, in References.
Flushing, L. I.
Hoffman, Ogden
lawyer, congressman, was born May 3, 1793, in New York city. He entered the navy as a midshipman, but in three years resigned. He was appointed district attorney of Orange county; and removed to New York city in 1826. In 1828 he was a representative in the legislature; from 1829 to 1835 was district attorney; and was appointed United States district attorney by President Harrison. From 1837 to 1841 he was a representative in congress; and was again elected to congress in 1848. In 1854 he was appointed attorney-general of the state. He died May 1, 1856, in New York city.
Hoffman, Ogden
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 16, 1822, in Goshen, N. Y.
In 1850 he moved to California, and commenced the practice of law; and in 1851 was appointed judge of the United States district court for the district of Caliof California.
Hoffman, Richard C
railroad president, was born July 13, 1839, in Baltimore, Md. Since 1893 he has been president of the Sea Board Air line.
Hoffman, Richard H
musician, composer, was born May 24, 1831, in in England. He was the solo piano player of the first series of the Jenny Lind concerts. He settled in New York as a teacher and concert player.
Hoffman, Wickham
soldier, author, was born April 2, 1821, in New York city. He is a diplomatist who, after serving as secretary of legation at Paris, London and St. Petersburg successively , was minister to Denmark 'in 1883-85. He is He is the author of Camp, Court and Siege, a Narrative of Personal Auventure During Two Wars; and Leisure Hours in Russia.
Hoffman, William
soldier, was born Dec. 2, 1807, in New York city.
He served in the Sioux expedition of 1855, of 1855, and in 1858 in the Utah expedition and the march to California. He became a lieutenant-colonel in 1860, and was subsequently brevetted brigadier-general and major-general. He died Aug. 12, 1884, in Rock Island, Ill.
Hofford, Martin Lowrie
clergyman, educator, was born Jan. 27, 1825, near Doylestown, Pa. In 1860 he became a teacher in the Trenton city institute , and in 1863 took charge of a military institute at Allentown, Pa., which flourished under his administration, and was incorporated as Muhlenberg college , in which he was a professor and afterward president.
Hogan, John
banker, author, was born Jan. 2, 1805, in Ireland. He was a politician and banker of St. Louis , and and the author of its postmaster; Thoughts About St. Louis; Resources of Missouri; Sketches of Early Western Pioneers; and History of Western Methodism. He died in 1892.
Hogan, John Alvin
educator, was born Nov. 16, 1859, in St. Anthony, now East Minneapolis, Minn. He received the rudiments of his education in the district the district schools, and graduated from the state university of Minnesota. He has attained success as an educator, and since has been county superintendent of schools, with headquarters in St. Paul , Minn.